Title:Social Roles as an Effective Learning Mechanism
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Author(s):SCHLAG, Karl H.; POLLOCK, GregoryDate:1999Citation:Rationality and Society, 1999, 11, 4, 371-397.Type:ArticleAbstract:Using the 'Buyer-Seller' game as an idealized form of social interaction across complementary roles, we examine two forms of 'myopic learning', where individuals try to improve their response to their immediately past ...

Title:Social Security and Risk Sharing
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Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; KUBLER, FelixDate:2009Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2009/12Abstract:Social Security and Risk Sharing
Piero Gottardi
Felix Kubler
Abstract
In this paper we identify conditions under which the introduction of a pay-as-you-go social security system is ex-ante Pareto-improving in a stochastic ...

Title:Social Security and Risk Sharing
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Author(s):GOTTARDI, Piero; KUBLER, FelixDate:2011-01-01Citation:Journal of Economic Theory, 2011, 146, 3, 1078-1106Type:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we identify conditions under which the introduction of a pay-as-you-go social security system is ex ante Pareto-improving in a stochastic OLG economy with capital accumulation and land. We argue that these ...